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The Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety journal ISSN 1024-6177 was founded in January 1956 (before December 30, 1993 it was entitled Medical Radiology, ISSN 0025-8334). In 2018, the journal received Online ISSN: 2618-9615 and was registered as an electronic online publication in Roskomnadzor on March 29, 2018. It publishes original research articles which cover questions of radiobiology, radiation medicine, radiation safety, radiation therapy, nuclear medicine and scientific reviews. In general the journal has more than 30 headings and it is of interest for specialists working in thefields of medicine¸ radiation biology, epidemiology, medical physics and technology. Since July 01, 2008 the journal has been published by State Research Center - Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center of Federal Medical Biological Agency. The founder from 1956 to the present time is the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, and from 2008 to the present time is the Federal Medical Biological Agency.

Members of the editorial board are scientists specializing in the field of radiation biology and medicine, radiation protection, radiation epidemiology, radiation oncology, radiation diagnostics and therapy, nuclear medicine and medical physics. The editorial board consists of academicians (members of the Russian Academy of Science (RAS)), the full member of Academy of Medical Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, corresponding members of the RAS, Doctors of Medicine, professor, candidates and doctors of biological, physical mathematics and engineering sciences. The editorial board is constantly replenished by experts who work in the CIS and foreign countries.

Six issues of the journal are published per year, the volume is 13.5 conventional printed sheets, 88 printer’s sheets, 1.000 copies. The journal has an identical full-text electronic version, which, simultaneously with the printed version and color drawings, is posted on the sites of the Scientific Electronic Library (SEL) and the journal's website. The journal is distributed through the Rospechat Agency under the contract № 7407 of June 16, 2006, through individual buyers and commercial structures. The publication of articles is free.

The journal is included in the List of Russian Reviewed Scientific Journals of the Higher Attestation Commission. Since 2008 the journal has been available on the Internet and indexed in the RISC database which is placed on Web of Science. Since February 2nd, 2018, the journal "Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety" has been indexed in the SCOPUS abstract and citation database.

Brief electronic versions of the Journal have been publicly available since 2005 on the website of the Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety Journal: http://www.medradiol.ru. Since 2011, all issues of the journal as a whole are publicly available, and since 2016 - full-text versions of scientific articles. Since 2005, subscribers can purchase full versions of other articles of any issue only through the National Electronic Library. The editor of the Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety Journal in accordance with the National Electronic Library agreement has been providing the Library with all its production since 2005 until now.

The main working language of the journal is Russian, an additional language is English, which is used to write titles of articles, information about authors, annotations, key words, a list of literature.

Since 2017 the journal Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety has switched to digital identification of publications, assigning to each article the identifier of the digital object (DOI), which greatly accelerated the search for the location of the article on the Internet. In future it is planned to publish the English-language version of the journal Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety for its development. In order to obtain information about the publication activity of the journal in March 2015, a counter of readers' references to the materials posted on the site from 2005 to the present which is placed on the journal's website. During 2015 - 2016 years on average there were no more than 100-170 handlings per day. Publication of a number of articles, as well as electronic versions of profile monographs and collections in the public domain, dramatically increased the number of handlings to the journal's website to 500 - 800 per day, and the total number of visits to the site at the end of 2017 was more than 230.000.

The two-year impact factor of RISC, according to data for 2017, was 0.439, taking into account citation from all sources - 0.570, and the five-year impact factor of RISC - 0.352.

Issues journals

Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2012. Vol. 57. No. 6. P. 43-50

RADIATION MEDICINE

N.A. Metlyaeva

Socially-psychophysiological Adaptation of the Patient, who has Suffered at Failure the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station, Transferred Acute Radiation Sickness of IV Heaviest Degree and Local Radiation Injuries I-IV of Severity Level

Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center of Federal Medical Biological Agency, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Abstract

Purpose: To estimate the psychology-physiological features of the social and psychology-physiological adaptation in the patient survived very severe acute radiation sickness, resulted from Chernobyl Accident (24 years of supervision) on the base his personal data by periods and stages of his mental adaptation.

Material and methods: Т.А.М., worked as the engineer-driver inspector at Chernobyl NPP; secondary technical education. In April, 1986, at the age of 24 years, at the moment of nuclear accident he was exposed to beta-gamma radiation with dose above 9.0 Gy and the acute radiation sickness IV degree developed accompanied with severe skin radiation burns.

Psychological examinations were performed with use of MMPI test using. As well as Kettella, Ravena tests, and sensomotor reactions were studied repeatedly in 1999, 2000 and 2002. Clinical supervision of the patient was spent within 24 years (1986-2010).

Results: Some average profile of multilateral examination of the patient (MMPI) and dynamics of indicators for years of supervision exceed borders of population statistical norm (<70 > 30) on a scale of Tpoints and testify to an overstrain of mental adaptation.

Dynamics of an emotional pressure and intensity of its mental adaptation (the test of Kettella) correspond to relative density of infringements of mental adaptation characteristic for the period of adaptable exhaustion. The tendency to occurrence of personal lines at Т.А.М is revealed the form of apathetic depression (1999), with transition in disturbing depression (2000), somatic alarms and to display of lines of the classical disturbing-depressive person (2002) with a low energy potential. Psychology - physiological inspections revealed rather high indicators of intelligence (factor B-7 of walls) and well figurativelogic thinking (the test of Ravena).

Conclusions: Specific Т.А.М’s features of psychophysiological adaptation. and expressed personal lines defined his behavior and death of alcoholic intoxication.

Key words: acute radiation sickness, ionizing radiation, Chernobyl accident, local radiation injuries, adaptation

Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2012. Vol. 57. No. 6. P. 26-42

RADIATION SAFETY

E.I. Tolstykh1, M.O. Degteva1, L.M. Peremyslova1, N.B. Shagina1, E.A. Shishkina1, V.A. Krivoschapov2, L.R. Anspaugh3, B.A. Napier4

Reconstruction of Long-Lived Radionuclide Intake with Diet for Techa Riverside Residents: Part 1. Strontium-90

1. Urals Research Center for Radiation Medicine, Chelyabinsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ; 2. Southern Urals State University, Chelyabinsk, Russia; 3. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA; 4. Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, USA

Abstract

Purpose: Improvement of 90Sr diet intake function for residents of riverside settlements of Techa River contaminated due to releases of liquid radioactive wastes of Mayak plutonium production association (MPA) in 1949-1956. The cohorts of Techa riverside residents are studied for assessment of health radiation effects. For cohort member 90Sr was the main dose forming radionuclide. The study of MPA archive performed in 2006-2008 have shown that massive radioactive releases were started in September 1950 and not in the beginning of 1950, as it was assumed under elaboration of Techa River dosimetry system (TRDS-2000) basing on the data available. So the need to revalue the 90Sr intake function arises due to the change of “zero-point” of release time.

Material and methods: The data on 90Sr content in human body (data on in vivo measurements with whole body counter and tooth betacounter), and available data on 90Sr measurements in samples of soil, river water and cow milk were used for reconstruction of 90Sr intake function. The non-standard approach based on the solution of mathematic inverse problem (equation) was applied. The equation related the results of tooth beta-counter measurements and function of 90Sr diet intake form Muslyumovo residents was used. The Muslyumovo village is the most investigated settlement in terms of dosimetry, so it assumes as reference Techa River settlement.

Results: The total 90Sr intake level for adult Techa riverside residents changed insignificantly in comparison with TRDS-2000 estimations. The total 90Sr intake during 1950-1980 for Muslyumovo residents was estimated as 3200 kBq. In TRDS-2000 this value was similar. However, the shift of “zero-point” of releases resulted in significant changes of 90Sr intake in different calendar years. For example, for 1953-1954 the intake level increases by a factor of 5-7. For Muslyumovo residents of 1947 birth year (3-4 year old at the time of maximal releases) the total intake increases by 35 % (2400 kBq in comparison with 1800 kBq), that lead to increase in internal doses due to 90Sr, and internal dose rates in some years. The approaches to 90Sr intake reconstruction in other Techa riverside settlements are also discussed in the paper. Conclusions: Obtained values of 90Sr intakes allow to improve the individual dose estimates for Techa River cohort members, that is necessary for correct estimates of epidemiological risks of late radiation effects.

Key words: strontium-90, cesium-137, Techa River, mathematic inverse problem, radionuclide diet intake

Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2012. Vol. 57. No. 6. P. 5-8

RADIATION BIOLOGY

V.F. Stepanenko, I.G. Belukha, D.V. Dubov, E.K. Yaskova, A.F. Tsyb

Nanodosymetric Basing of Selective Irradiation to Chromosomes with Cascade Irradiatora of Low-Energy Electrons

Medical Radiological Research Center, Obninsk, Kaluga region, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Abstract

Nanodosimertry data as a ground for the possibility of selective irradiation on chromosomes by cascade emitters of low energy Auger electrons and photoelectrons, generated by the photoelectric effect on the native and on the incorporated atoms in the DNA resulted from external irradiation by low-energy photons, are presented. A theoretical evaluation of the biological effectiveness of photon activation effect on cultured B-16 melanoma cells with included to the DNA molecule of stable bromine or iodine atoms was performed.

Key words: nanodosimetry, chromosomes, cascade irradiators of electrons

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Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2012. Vol. 57. No. 6. P. 9-25

RADIATION SAFETY

E.M. Melikhova, I.E. Barkhudarova

Sources of Errors in Interpretation Demographic Processes in Regions Contaminated with Radionuclides by Example of the Bryansk Region

Nuclear Safety Institute of the RAS, Moscow, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Contents

ruthful interpretation of current demographic situation and longterm trends of demographic processes in radioactive contaminated territories requires correct choice of reference regions and consistent accounting for statistical data. Review of last decade publications considering quality of official medical population statistics in Russia shows that errors in calculations at national and regional levels could be not omissible. The Bryansk Region was taken as an example to get lowbound- estimates of the errors, validate reference regions selection and demonstrate the effect of consistent accounting for statistical errors in comparative analysis. It was shown that after Chernobyl accident demographic development of the Bryansk Region followed the general tendencies of the Central District (excluding the capital city). Against prevailing opinion, the Bryansk Region has never been among outsiders. It has neither progress, no regress in comparison with the typical middling regions of the Central District. A number of publications were analyzed to demonstrate typical mistakes in methods that lead to wrong interpretations of the Bryansk Region demographic situation.

Key words: the Bryansk Region, demographic process, regional  variations, quality of demographic data, Chernobyl medical consequences

Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2018. Vol. 63. No. 3. P. 74-82

DISCUSSION

DOI: 10.12737/article_5b17a3e6864907.56652758

Problems of Population Radiation Safety Support in Case of Radiation Accidents

S.F. Goncharov, G.M. Avetisov

All Russian Centre for Disaster Medicine «Zaschita», Moscow, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

S.F. Goncharov – Director, Dr. Sc. Med., Prof., Academician of RAS; G.M. Avetisov – Chief Expert, Dr. Sc. Biol., Prof.

Abstract

The article presents the results of 25-old activity of the head agency of the Service for Disaster Medicine of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation – All Russian Centre for Disaster Medicine «Zaschita» (ARCDM «Zaschita») of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation in the sphere of medical support of population in case of radiation accidents. The Service is a functional subsystem of the Unified State system of prevention and liquidation of emergency situations, intended for elimination of medical and sanitary consequences of emergency situation.

In Russia, it is legally established that in case of radiation accident the Federal Medical Biological Agency of Russia (the FMBA of Russia) is responsible for radiation safety of the population living in the NPP surveillance zone (approximately 25 km). Responsibility for the radiation safety of the rest of the population living outside the surveillance zone is assigned to the Service for disaster medicine.

In accordance with the current document “Model content of the protection plan of the population in case of an accident at the radiation facility” developed by the Ministry of Emergency Situations, mandatory protective measures are provided in the territory that radius is 25 km around the radiation object (planning zones of preventive and emergency measures). Early planning in the restrictive planning zone is not envisaged, and protective measures outside the 100-kilometer zone are considered inappropriate.

The article presents the concept developed by the specialists of ARCDM «Zaschita» for drafting protection of the subjects of the Russian Federation for the nuclear power plants operating on the territory of Russia. The concept is based on experience of consequences of the Chernobyl NPP accident. The concept argues that the outer boundary of the planning area for protective measures around nuclear power plants should have an outer radius of 1000 km. Radius of the emergency planning area is 100 km.

The problems of preparedness for radiation safety of population support in case of radiation accidents are discussed. They are: the need for elaboration of regulatory and normative documents of the federal level on obligatory advance planning of protective measures against the possibility of radiation accidents on radiation-hazardous objects from the nuclear power plants on the territory of Russia for the population, not supervised by the FMBA of Russia (living both in the observation zone and abroad) and regulating the need and procedure of planning, organization and carrying out in case of necessity iodine prophylaxis for the population on territories up to 1000 km from operating NPPs of Russia. Same approaches to the solution of the considered problems are suggested.

Key words: NPP of Russia, radiation accidents, iodine prophylaxis, Service for Disaster Medicine

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For citation: Goncharov SF, Avetisov GM. Problems of Population Radiation Safety Support in Case of Radiation Accidents. Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2018;63(3):74-82. Russian. DOI: 10.12737/article_5b17a3e6864907.56652758

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